Description
Swimbridge, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Devonshire, with a station on the G.W.R., 200 miles from London, and 4 1/2 ESE of Barnstaple. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Barnstaple. Acreage, 7146; population, 1171. There are several handsome residences in the neighbourhood. The Duke of Bedford is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The church is Later English, and has a tower and spire. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels and a church mission-room.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
